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Unless they have stopped development of chapter 5, this game is in early access by definition on the platform they sell it on https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/earlyaccess

You're playing an early access game, of course it's buggy. I would just wait for them to finish the game before playing if it annoys you.

Custom games are how I tried to get into the game, but in the end there was too many things like cabin fever which make no sense so I just don't play. But yes cabin fever is one of those "what the?" things. That along with clothing not working in a sane way, meat rotting in -20 degree weather somehow, you spraining every limb just walking down a hill, the fact that you can't even sleep a full night without taking thirst damage despite drinking as much as possible the night before, houses being magically warm, etc etc etc. Anyways I am still looking forward to the story part of the game when it comes out of early access. A good atmosphere and story can make up for a lot.

If you really like the sandbox mode then maybe? For me personally it's not something I would play for free so it doesn't matter. There are too many issues, some are the game not working well, some are me not liking when things don't make sense even if it works, and some things are me just disagreeing with how things have been designed. The story mode has some forgiveness though. If the story is enjoyable I can still enjoy the nice atmosphere this game has even with the parts I don't enjoy about the game. I have yet to play any of it really, so hopefully it will be good once it comes out. How much is it anyways? If it costs like 20 dollars then maybe give up a couple trips to starbucks or something. You can ask if it's worth two whipped cream frappe or whatever they sell there.

You don't need ray tracing to make the lighting work better in this game. They just need to put in a little effort.

I would like it, but it's not going to happen. At least not officially.

I would probably paint my nails if I had hundreds of hours of free time.

Bears in TLD only weigh about 40-80kg, so you could totally pick one up. Anyways all of this will need to be done by modders so we will just need for hinterland to finish the game(and hopefully have good mod support) so some good mods can come out.

I don't know if it still happens, but the living meat sometimes disappears when you're not looking and it ports around. Hopefully that's good enough?

I will be playing this game once it's out of early access and I am hoping custom settings will be added to the story game, at least as much as they can be without breaking anything, for example if I turn off sleeping health regen which ends my game when a certain area is unbeatable.

Over time I think I've come to see how things are working. There is a lot of strange stuff in this game but the effort required to fix it is larger than the reward for the people in charge. You can get 85% of the way there for 30% of the effort kinda thing. So for example the meat on the ground thing, sure maybe wolves would eat it IRL, but you can also use it as bait to get more wolves.....but that's not how the game works. Wolves have a very set area they cannot leave. It would require effort to even get them to move, then require effort to get them to be able to sense stuff on the ground, and all that would result in is people either wanting to build a box the wolves cannot open(which makes sense) which takes even more effort OR people would leave meat on the ground as bait to get even more meat.

ESRB/PEGI are the people that think gambling is perfectly fine for children of all ages so I wouldn't listen to anything they say. Also a lot of the time game companies cheat by releasing their game, get it rated, then force patch in a giant pile of garbage and the rating never changes.

I would give people options. Many people seem to like the way it is done in TLD, but personally I think it's awful that you can't even sleep through the night without taking thirst damage, or that you can die of starvation 12 hours after stuffing your face with as much food as you can possibly eat for weeks. Maybe have two settings and keep the calorie and thirst requirements the same. One is the TLD way where you're constantly under threat of dying if you're not topping up, the other gives you longer buffers. In the longer buffer version, you could have TLD system be your hunger/thirst meters for how your characters feel, but then it pulls from a pool as well. So you have lets say a 10,000 calorie buffer. If you're above 50% hunger some of your calories go into that pool, if you're below some of your calories come from that pool. Only once your pool and hunger hits zero do you start taking damage.

I always forget about the book times in this game. I don't think hinterland wants to change any of what you said so my suggestion is to use mods and/or wait for better mod support.

From what I recall the text in the book is just from a text file so you can make it anything pretty easily.

I am only interested in story mode personally. You end up "winning" the sandbox mode in a matter of days so it doesn't have much appeal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUvKW89SgI

Probably, but it's windows so who knows, it could break at any moment from one of the forced "improvements".

I personally wish custom were better. I don't play the sandbox mode because it doesn't allow me to set it up in a way I like.

Does story mode have a regular save system? I would like to avoid something like this when playing through if I can.

I don't have one since I am just waiting for the story mode to be done.

If you want an actually good interface instead of a painful struggle, the entire UI on PC needs to be redone. It's a disaster as of the last time I played this game maybe a year ago and I cannot imagine anything has gotten better. You have to slowly scroll through stuff to get to where you want to go instead of having a selection area of things you can just click on The number of clicks needed to do basic things like pick up 150 sticks is beyond awful, but thankfully autohotkey can save you here. This game is almost unplayable without autohotkey. The controls were designed as if keyboards had six buttons with many keys doing double or triple duty. These need to be broken out and allow us to bind actions to what we want. I am sure if I played this again I could come up with a big list, but honestly I don't know why I am bothering to write this much so I won't go any further. As to the journal I think something like this would be super good and would greatly improve the game's feel.

I wish for better mod support. It has been over four years, I don't think they're going to do it.

I've tried both but I typically had it off I seem to recall. There were too many strange things, two examples I can think of being "I could sleep right here" or being complaining about being sleepy 5mins after a 12 hours sleep. Both of these things are just too far out there for me. In the game world no you can't sleep there, there is no option to do this, it's a lie that is exposed the moment the character says it. And yes in the game world you can sleep 23 hours a day as long as one of those hours is spent climbing a cliff, and this is too far off of reality for me to handle. I don't want to hear that you can barely keep your eyes open mere minutes after waking up from being as rested as you could possibly be.

The devs of this game have an aversion to thinking too hard about what's actually happening in their game. Drinking blood would never be added.....but it kinda is already in the game. In Canada(and most of the world, AFAIK), animals are left hanging with open wounds until they bleed out so the meat we eat is pretty blood free. In this game that does not happen so the meat stays nice and bloody inside. You don't drink it though, you eat it. edit----- I think I would just like to add that not wanting to think about what you're doing in common in our society. It's not just the devs of this game, it's a culturally promoted ignorance of reality that the vast majority support and participate in. I don't want the devs to be singled out.